Improvement in children s carriages



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ADAM HEIM, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,992, dated July 14,1874; application filed May 56, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM HEIM, of San Francisco city and county, Stateof California, have invented an Improved Childs Carriage; and I dohereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings aresufficient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to whichit most nearly appertains to make and use my said invention or improvement without further invention or eX- periment.

My invention consists in the combination, in a childs carriage orperambulator, of the several devices hereinafter explained.

To describe my invention so that others will understand its constructionand operation, reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming apart of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view ofmy invention. Fig. 2 is a plan, showing the turn-table. Fig. 3 is a sidesectional elevation.

A A are the wheels, B B the axles, C C the springs, and D the body, of achilds carriage. The handles E are attached to the carriage between thebody and springs.

My improvement, in attaching the handles to the carriage, consists insecuring between the body D and springs C a circular grooved track, andin providing the handles with a ring or circular band, which fits in thegrooved track, so that the handles can be turned around in a horizontalplane to either end of the carriage. This can be done in a variety ofways; but I have, in the present instance, represented two wide-facedrings, 0 f, having a narrow ring, it, placed between them at the inneredge of their rims, and the whole secured together by screws, bolts, orrivets, so that the projecting ends of the wide rings form flanges, andconsequently provide a groove or track. Thehandles E have a ring, J,formed upon or secured to that end which is attached to the carriage,and this ring is just large enough to fit easily in the groove or trackbetween the rings 6 f and outside of the narrow ring h. Before securingthe rings 0 f it together this ring J on the handles is fitted intoplace in the groove, thus forming a sort of annular swivel-ring. Thesecombined rings are secured horizontally upon the springs C C, and thecarriage-body D is secured to the upper ring. Thus it will be seen thatthe handles can be swiveled around in a horizontal plane, so as to standat either end of the carriage at which it may be desired to place them.

To secure the handles in either position, I attach a lever, K, to one ofthe handles by a: pin-fulcrum at i. The end of this lever which projectsunder the carriage-body has a pin, 0, on its under side, and this pinfits in a hole, 8, in the lower wide ring. The opposite or outer end ofthe lever is kept raised by a spring, t, sothat by depressing this endof the lever the pin 0 is raised out of the hole and the handles leftfree to swing around to the opposite end, where a similar hole receivesthem. I thus provide a swivel handle for childrens carriages andperambulators, which can be easily swung around from one end to theother without resorting to the old plan of removing them from one end inorder to place them at the other end.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Iatcut, is

In a childs carriage or perambulator, the rings 6 f h, combined with thehandles E, having the traversing rin J and spring K, having the pin 0,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal.

\Vitnesses: ADAM HEIM.

JNo. L. BooNE, C. M. RICHARDSON.

